LONDON - Britain’s Conservative Party all-but conceded election defeat to Keir Starmer’s Labour on July 3, a day before polling stations even opened, and warned that the opposition party was on course for a record-breaking victory.
and hand Mr Starmer the keys to the prime minister’s Number 10 Downing Street office on the morning of July 5.
But, facing predictions of the worst result in the party’s history, the Conservatives turned their focus to damage limitation, saying they needed to hang on to enough seats to provide an effective opposition to a Labour government. “The insurmountable problem faced by the is that - over the course of 14 often chaotic years - they have become a divided rabble, more interested in fighting themselves than running the country,” the newspaper, which has backed the Conservatives at every election since 2010, said.Labour’s final campaign push focused on their fear that voters could see the result as a foregone conclusion and stay at home during polling on July 4, or register protest votes with smaller parties.
“I don’t take anything for granted, I respect the voters, and I know that we have to earn every vote until 10 o’clock tomorrow night and we will do that.”Count Binface, Elmo and AI Steve among the UK election’s unusual candidates
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